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- Title
Bodily relics in Gandharan stupas The Buddha's bodily relics in the Māhaparinibbāna-sutta.
- Authors
Rienjang, Wannaporn
- Abstract
Śarira, or what is generally translated as (bodily) relics of the Buddha or Buddhist saints, has long occupied an important place in the stupa cult of the Buddhist world. As widely known, there are stupas that contain nothing while those that have 'relics' do not always contain what is expected to see: the bone fragments or ashes of 'bodily remains'. This paper serves as a survey of the occurrence of (bodily) relics in stupas of the areas that are parts of greater Gandhara that is present day eastern Afghanistan and Taxila.
- Subjects
STUPAS; BUDDHIST relics; RELICS; BUDDHISM; BUDDHIST architecture
- Publication
Gandharan Studies, 2013, Vol 7, p1
- ISSN
1996-9120
- Publication type
Article